Comments on: Drills to Help Your Child Roll Her R’s

By: Jonas Johnson

Jonas Johnson — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 21:33:10 +0000

In the English language rolling r’s is used pretty rarely but we only roll our tongue with some words such as ladder, butter, order, better or bitter. The roll is pretty silent. I’m learning Spanish now and this site has this cool exercise to help people roll there r’s. Even though I’m 21 this seems very useful to me. Latin languages are my favorite of all languages. So they include Spanish, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese.

By: Teach Your Bilingual Kids To Roll Their R's |SpanglishBaby™

Teach Your Bilingual Kids To Roll Their R's |SpanglishBaby™ — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 16:04:04 +0000

[...] while back I wrote about my daughter Vanessa having a hard time pronouncing the letter R. She’s gotten better at it, but now it’s her 4-year-old brother’s turn to learn [...]

By: Help! My child can’t roll her/his Rs! | Multilingual Kids

Help! My child can’t roll her/his Rs! | Multilingual Kids — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:08:21 +0000

[...] For more drills, rhymes and trabalenguas (tongue twisters) check out the original post by SpanglishBaby! [...]

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 20:30:12 +0000

Oh thank you! I was worried too since I haven’t been the best teacher to my little girl. She cannot roll her R’s yet so we will be practicing some of these.

By: Ana

Ana — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:37:46 +0000

Roxana- I hadcompletely forgotten about that game. So many memories!! My almost 4 year old can’t roll his Rs either yet. I am going to teach him some of these games to make it more fun!

By: Roxana A. Soto

Roxana A. Soto — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 03:19:15 +0000

¡Bienvenida, Alexandra!

I’m glad you found us and that you’re enjoying what you’re reading! Ana and I have been reading you since Carrie over at the Tiki Tiki Blog introduced us to you! We love your voice!

Gracias por visitarnos and for sharing about your children and you.

By: Roxana A. Soto

Roxana A. Soto — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 03:16:56 +0000

Wow, Becky! I’m loving all the info you’ve shared with us here. Thank you so much! I’ll definitely be trying these exercises with Vanessa. Vamos a ver que pasa…

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 17:16:25 +0000

I am so happy to find this site!

I have been working with my self, and my children in not losing our accent. It is so easy to lose the accent when American intonation patterns come in: especially the way Americans extend the last word of a sentence, vs the way my Colombian family clips the end.

That is a dead giveaway to an American accent, and it’s happening to me!!!

Thank you for leading me here, Roxana, I am enjoying my morning reading the archives.

What a wealth of resource!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Becky

Becky — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 12:39:45 +0000

This is a *wonderful* (and timely) post!!!!! Out of my 4 kids, only 2 can roll their “rr.” When we spent the summer in Mexico last year, we took the 2 older kids to a speech therapist there to help them. She had them sticking out their tongue blowing strawberries a lot, to help them feel for the vibrations the tongue should make. Then she taught them where to place their tongue behind their teeth. One funny thing she did that worked (she was able to teach my older daughter to roll rr) was hold their cheeks kind-of smooshed together (put your hand under their chin and squeeze their cheeks together). Then they would try to roll their rr’s and she would have them blow a lot of air out at the same time- so it was almost an “rr” whisper, with a lot of air. She said it was easiest at the beginning of words, so she would have them practice “rra, rre, rri, rro, rru.” It’s all so interesting- I need to practice more with my other 2 kids!!!!

By: Roxana A. Soto

Roxana A. Soto — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:12:27 +0000

Thanks for sharing that, Xochitl! I’m going to teach it to my daughter. It reminds me of a game we used to play in Peru that went something like this: Fe-rro-ca-rril, carril, carril…. De Lima a Callao, Callao, Callo. Un paso pa’ tras, pa’ tras.